The Feminist Approach In The Story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women.

There is no evidence to suggest Shakespeare disliked the women in his life, but some believe he had extra-marital affairs. In Sonnets 127-154, he refers to a passionate relationship with a “Dark Lady”. Some historians have identified her as Emilia Lanier, a progressive poet who wrote about women’s sexual liberation.

In reality, Juliet is perhaps the Shakespearean woman that most exudes a feminist trait, and that takes control over her own life.

Yet in the 16th century, Shakespeare crafted a character that shared many of the same traits as Katniss while simultaneous pleasing an audience with traditional views on femininity. As a result, Lady Macbeth is a feminist role model before the rise of feminist ideology in the mainstream and a truly evil person as well.

Unsexed by her own will, Lady Macbeth is now no longer a conventional ‘lady’: because she has refused to behave as dutifully as her society suggests she should, she seems to become an inhuman creature, a dark parody of femaleness whose blood is too ‘thick’ and clotted for menstrual fertility and whose maternal milk is …

By turning her milk into poison, Lady Macbeth is rejecting the idea that breasts function to feed infants. She is telling Macbeth that he needs to look innocent on the outside, but “the serpent under’t” on the inside. This statement is ironic because Lady Macbeth is doing exactly this by masking her femininity.

Duncan

Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as possessing power through her matriarchal relationship with Macbeth. Shakespeare shows how Lady Macbeth is a powerful woman through her ability to retain control of her emotions/sanity for longer than Macbeth, as evidenced through her taking control in the banquet scene.

Lady Macbeth opens a letter from her husband telling her all about the Witches and what they have promised him. She is really excited about being queen. She wants to kill the King so that Macbeth can become king as soon as possible.

Macduff

Lady Macbeth is even more ambitious and ruthless than her husband. As soon as an opportunity to gain power presents itself, she has a plan in mind. She uses her influence to persuade Macbeth that they are taking the right course of action and even takes part in the crime herself.

Scene for increasingly horrifying scene, Lady Macbeth is about the making of a psychopath for whom bullying and betrayal have become learned behavior. The spotlight remains without sentimentality on Katherine and on the falling dominoes of violence that attend her efforts to sustain ownership of her illicit passion.

Lady Macbeth changes a lot throughout the play and starts as a cold heartless women and later starts to regret her foolishness. She has a lot of remorse which leads to her suicide in the end of the play.

The first scene in the tragedy’s 5th act, the sleepwalking scene is written principally in prose, and follows the guilt-wracked, sleepwalking Lady Macbeth as she recollects horrific images and impressions from her past. The scene is Lady Macbeth’s last on-stage appearance, though her death is reported later in the act.

Macbeth meets up with the witches, who are busy making potions and casting spells. He tells them he wants to learn more about his future. They tell him three key things: He should keep an eye on Macduff. He won’t face any harm from anyone “of woman born.” He won’t be conquered until Birnam Wood marches to Dunsinane.

Macbeth is an extremely violent play. Macbeth takes the throne of Scotland by killing Duncan and his guards, and tries to hold on to it by sending people to murder Banquo and Macduff’s family. Finally, he attempts to keep his reign by fighting Macduff.

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Macbeth decides to act immediately this time to kill Macduff’s family as retribution. At Macduff’s castle, Lady Macduff is outraged by her husband’s flight, leaving his family unprotected. She tells her young son that his father is dead.